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GCC Summit

June 19th, 2008 by

Our presentation on Treehydra and Dehydra GCC plugins was received well at the summit.

The big news is that FSF is working on license changes to allow GPL-only GCC plugins. I’m looking forward to having our work be compatible with future GCC without any patching.

In a few minutes we’ll be having a meeting with users of other plugin frameworks to have an initial discussion on a common API. I’m working on forward porting my patches, so they can start getting reviewed ahead of license changes.

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4 Responses to “GCC Summit”

  1. on 20 Jun 2008 at 9:48 am   Jeff Walden

    GPL-only? How can they forbid a multiple-licensing scheme for the actual code, even if you couldn’t *use* the actual code under a non-GPL license?

  2. on 24 Jun 2008 at 12:52 pm   tglek

    Jeff,
    I’m not into this lawyer stuff, I was just posting the informal interpretation that I was given.

  3. on 26 Jun 2008 at 2:28 pm   Jeff Walden

    Okay, no worries. :-) Probably just filtered through their worldview, then, and in any case not that important anyway…

  4. on 10 Aug 2008 at 2:46 am   Ramneek

    this is a good news.. any progress here? where can i get a preview and be involved in more discussion?